The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . ompany in fordid ragged cloaths. If he goes with his mother to the fouthfayers, he cannot then refrain from wicked and profane ex- preffions. When he is making his oblations at the temple, he will let the - 178 The LOVER. N° j. the difh drop out of his hand, and fall a laughing, as if he had done fome brave exploit. Ac the fincft conforc of mufick he cannot forbear clap- ping his hands, and making a rude noife : will pretend to fing along with them, and fall a railing at them to leave off. Sitting at table, he fpits full upon the fer
The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . ompany in fordid ragged cloaths. If he goes with his mother to the fouthfayers, he cannot then refrain from wicked and profane ex- preffions. When he is making his oblations at the temple, he will let the - 178 The LOVER. N° j. the difh drop out of his hand, and fall a laughing, as if he had done fome brave exploit. Ac the fincft conforc of mufick he cannot forbear clap- ping his hands, and making a rude noife : will pretend to fing along with them, and fall a railing at them to leave off. Sitting at table, he fpits full upon the fervants who waited there. I cannot clofe this paper without obferving, That if Gentlemen of leifureand genius would take the fame pains upon fome other Greek or RomanAuthor, that has been beftowed upon this, we fhould no longer be abufedby our Bookfellers, who fet their hackney-writers at work for fo much a world would foon be convinced, thar there is a great deal of diffe-rence between putting an Author into Engli/h, and ^tranflating THE THE ! PRESENT STATE O F T H E WAR, AND THE Neceffity of an Augmentation, Confidered. PREFACE. THE Author of the following Effay has endeavoured to draw into onecontinued fcheme the whole ftate of the prefent war, and the methodsthat appear to him the mojl proper for bringing it to a happy conclu- Jion. After having conftdered that the French are the conjlant and mojl dangerousenemies to the Britifh nation, and that the danger from them is now greater thanever, and will fill increafe till their prefent Union with Spain be broken, he Jetsforth the feveral advantages which this Union has already given France, andtaken from Great Britain, in relation to the Weil-Indies, the woollen manufac-ture, the trade of the Levant, and the naval power of the two nations. He flews how theft advantages will fill rife higher after a peace, notwith-fanding our prefent conquefts, with new additions, flould be confirmed to us; aswell becaufe the mona
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